Asian Law Caucus Event on the Balazo Workers

From the APA for Progress Website:

July 9 - San Francisco - Asian Law Caucus Brownbag Series: ICE RAIDS: THE GREAT IMMIGRATION PANIC. Presented by Sin Yen Ling (Staff Attorney). An escalating campaign of raids in homes and workplaces has spread indiscriminate terror among millions of people who pose no threat. The recent Iowa raids at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meatpacking plant, netting some 400 workers, led to 270 immigrants facing five months of jail time for using false documents for work. In 2006, the Swift raids, happening across several states including Texas, Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa and Minnesota led to the arrests of some 1,200 workers in one single day. In May 2008, ICE in the Bay Area conducted raids at a chain restaurant called El Balazo and conducted home raids near Elementary Schools in Oakland and Berkeley. Join us for a discussion on Asian Law Caucus’ involvement in representing the El Balazo workers and parents who were victims of the school raids:

July 9, 12PM to 1:15PM
Asian Law Caucus on 939 Market Street, Suite 201 (2nd Floor)
San Francisco, CA 94103.
(415) 896-1701.

If you’d like to attend, email Angela Chan at angelac@asianlawcaucus.org.